Astronomers captivated by brightest flash they’d ever seen ...Qatar

Astronomers have observed the brightest flash of light ever seen, from an event that occurred 2.4bn light years from Earth and was likely triggered by the formation of a black hole. The burst of gamma-rays – the most intense form of electromagnetic radiation – was first detected by orbiting telescopes on October 9, and its afterglow is still being watched by scientists across the world. Astrophysicist Brendan O’Connor told AFP that gamma-ray bursts that last hundreds of seconds, as occurred that Sunday, are thought to be caused by dying massive stars, greater than 30 times bigger than our Sun. The star explodes in a supernova, collapses into a black hole, then matter forms in a disk around

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